On 8/21/07, Farhan Sarwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Guys, > > Got a question relating to the updatePolicy tag in the maven > repository configuration, so basically an updatePolicy can have one of > the 4 possible values i.e. always,daily,interval:X (in minutes) and > never. Now my understanding of the way maven handles Snapshot > version(s) is that it will always check for a new SNAPSHOT version in > a remote repository for every build (unlike regular versions), now > given that if i change the value for updatePolicy to for example > "never", would this behaviour (which i assume is build into it) change > ?
Yes, that is why the updatePolicy element exists. if yes, dont u think we can mimic the same behaviour with releases > by changing the value of updatePolicy to always, and hence it would > always get the latest from the remote-repo. You could, but it would slow down everything immensely, since now Maven has to check the remote repo for released artifacts, which has a cost (increased network traffic, latency) -- Eric Redmond http://blog.propellors.net Thanks and Regards, > > Farhan. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
